Madagascar 2

Movie
German title	Madagascar 2
Original title	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2008
length	about 90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 6
Rod
Director	Eric Darnell , Tom McGrath
script	Mark Burton , Billy Frolick , Eric Darnell , Tom McGrath , Etan Cohen
production	Mireille Soria , Mark Swift
music	Hans Zimmer , will.i.am
cut	Clare De Chenu , Mark A. Hester , H. Lee Peterson
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Madagascar Successor  → Madagascar 3: Escape through Europe

Madagascar 2 is a computer-animated cartoon that opened in German cinemas on December 4, 2008. Like its predecessor Madagascar , the production comes from DreamWorks Animation .

action

The little lion Alekey lives with his father, Zuba, the alpha lion, on a reservation in Africa . When Makunga, who wants to become an Alpha Lion himself, challenges Zuba to a fight, Alekey follows a rope laid out as a trap and is captured by poachers at the border of the reserve. Zuba tries in vain to rescue Alekey from the poachers' truck. During the chase, the box with the captured Alekey falls unnoticed into a river and drifts into the sea. He swims in the box all the way to New York City , where he is found and rescued. In the Central Park Zoo he grows up to a stately lion under his new name Alex and becomes the attraction of the zoo.

Years later, the four New York zoo animals Alex the lion , Marty the zebra , Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus , who were stranded in Madagascar in the previous film, decide to return to their zoo in New York. Your hosts, the lemur colony under the crazy King Julien, and the powerful penguin gang known from the previous film help you to get an airplane wreck that has been lying there back on the road for decades. Due to a broken engine, the group had to crash-land in Africa after a short flight. You end up in an animal reserve, the only water point of which is a meeting place for numerous species.

The following scenes illustrate the individual adjustment problems of the four protagonists to the "old home": Alex finds his parents again, but cannot pass the entrance exam for the pack because he thinks it is a dance competition (and not a duel) and therefore has to be banished from the pack. Since his father can't bring himself to this, he gives up the lead and the power-hungry and vain Makunga becomes Alpha Leo. Marty gets to know a herd of visually identical conspecifics and, frustrated, believes that he has lost his uniqueness. Since it is impossible even for Alex to distinguish him from the others, they argue and Marty turns away from Alex, disappointed. With "Moto Moto" Gloria gets to know an attractive, but rather unromantic hippo bull. Melman, who secretly loves Gloria, withdraws, develops a new imaginary disease, and waits to die. The penguins - the only ones completely unaffected by Africa - steal off-road vehicles from tourists and assemble a new airplane from the vehicle parts .

The situation at the waterhole escalates when the tourists, separated from their vehicles, cut off the water supply to the reserve with the help of a dam they built themselves from tree trunks (they are led by the old New York lady who was in Grand Central Station in the first film with the Leo fearlessly put on it). Alex wants to take the dangerous route out of the reserve to find the cause of the water drying up. After he recognized Marty among hundreds of zebras, the old friendship between Leo and zebra has been restored and both set off together. King Julien now recommends throwing a volunteer into the volcano as a sacrifice in order to make the water god friendly and thus get the water back. The lovesick Melman, who, because of his imaginary illness, thinks he won't be able to live much longer anyway, answers. He had confessed his love to Gloria just in time, which can save him from falling into the volcano at the last second. Alex and Marty discover the tourist dam. After being captured in the meantime and a subsequent rescue operation, the animals destroy the dam with the help of the penguins and their aircraft. Alex and his father manage to use a trick to disempower Makunga and regain their honor and position in the pack.

In the end, everyone wants to stay in Africa for the time being, with the exception of Skipper, who marries his beloved hula doll and flies with the other penguins and the chimpanzees by plane and a load of gold and diamonds on their honeymoon to Monte Carlo .

Film music

1. Once Upon a Time in Africa
2. Traveling song
3. Party! Party! Party!
4. I like to move it
5. Good, The Bad and the Ugly
6. Big and Chunky
7. Chums
8. New York, New York
9. Volcano
10. Rescue Me
11. More than a feeling
12. She loves me
13. Rescue Me
14. Copacabana (At the Copa)
15. Monochromatic Friends
16. Best friends
17. Alex on the spot

Production and publication

The film was produced by DreamWorks Animation studio , directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath . The music was composed by Hans Zimmer and sung by Will.i.am . The film is distributed in the USA by Paramount Pictures . The cinema premiere in the United States was on November 7, 2008. The film was released in Russian and Ukrainian cinemas on October 30.

The film premiered on December 3rd in France and Belgium , and has been shown in Germany since December 4th, 2008 .

synchronization

The film was translated and dubbed by Berliner Synchron AG . For dubbing and dialogue direction , Dr. Michael Nowka is responsible.

role	Original speaker	German speaker	character
Alex	Ben Stiller	Jan Josef Liefers	lion
Marty	Chris Rock	Rick Kavanian	zebra
Melman	David Schwimmer	Bastian Pastewka	giraffe
Gloria	Jada Pinkett Smith	Claudia Urbschat-Mingues	hippopotamus
King Julien	Sacha Baron Cohen	Stefan Gossler	Lemur ( ring- tailed lemur )
Maurice	Cedric the Entertainer	Roland Hemmo	Lemur ( finger animal )
Mort	Andy Richter	Gerald Schaale	Lemur ( mouse lemur )
Zuba, Alex's father	Bernie Mac	Engelbert von Nordhausen	lion
Florrie, Alex's mother	Sherri Shepherd	Almut Zydra	lioness
Makunga	Alec Baldwin	Klaus-Dieter Klebsch	lion
Moto Moto	will.i.am	Friedemann Benner	hippopotamus
Trudchen	Elisa Gabrielli	Heike Schroetter	granny
Skipper	Tom McGrath	Michael Beck	penguin
Kowalski	Chris Miller	Thomas D	penguin
Private	Christopher Knights	Smudo	penguin
Rico	John DiMaggio	Andreas Rieke	penguin
Monkey mason	Conrad Vernon	Lothar Blumhagen	chimpanzee
Giraffe Stephen	Stephen Kearin	Hannes Lambert	giraffe

Awards

On December 19, 2008, the film received the golden screen for over three million cinema viewers.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews, earning a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 150 reviews. At Metacritic , a Metascore of 61, based on 25 reviews, could be achieved.

“An entertaining family film full of witty ideas, the implementation of which has a few inconsistencies. So gags and 'soulful' dramatic scenes sometimes weaken each other, and the detailed animation does not go well with the 'loony tunes' style of the action sequences. "

- Lexicon of international film

continuation

A sequel entitled Madagascar 3: Escape Through Europe was released on June 8, 2012. Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippopotamus, and Melman the giraffe are still trying to get home to New York. This time their trip goes to a travel circus in Europe that they want to reinvent in Madagascar style.

Web links

• Official website
• Madagascar 2 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Madagascar 2 atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• Opinion from the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency
• Madagascar Wiki , Fanwiki with more than 150 articles on Madagascar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for Madagascar 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 005 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Madagascar 2 . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Madagascar 2. Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Golden canvas for MADAGASCAR 2
5. ↑ Madagascar 2 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
6. ↑ Madagascar 2 at Metacritic (English)
7. ^ Madagascar 2. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .